The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam considers that the portrait bought for less than $ 50 in a garage sale in Minnesota (USA) is not the work of the Dutch artist. “Based on our opinion, which we already express in 2019, we maintain our opinion that it is not an authentic picture of Vincent van Gogh,” said a spokesman for the institution to Artdependence In an email.
As indicated by the magazine, the Van Gogh Museum has taken into account the new information provided in the Eliminate report of the firm LMI Group International. This company, specialized in the authentication of works of art, concluded after four years of research that the work entitled ‘Elimar’ would have been made during the Van Gogh stay in the Saint-Paul psychiatric sanitarium in Saint-Rémy-de-Provencein France, between May 1889 and May 1890.
The painting represents a fisherman with a round hat on his head and a pipe in his mouth, in a thoughtful attitude while repairing his network on the beach. Sharbateada in the lower right corner of the canvas, the word ‘eliminate’ is read, which is believed to be the name of man.
In A statement collected by ArtnewsLMI Group argues that “the authentication of the works of art of Van Gogh is complicated and is full of challenges due to the long history of falsifications that permeate the market” and “one of the main difficulties are the works that the artist created, but that he never mentioned in his letters and that they were not previously attributed, as well as the mentioned works of art but never found (possibly up to 300) ».
The firm was “baffled because the Van Gogh museum invested less than a work day to summarily reject the facts presented […] Without offering any explanation, much less studying the paint directly instead of looking at it reproduced as JPEG ».
«We expected the museum to describe the specific facts of our extensive report with which its experts do not agree and the reasons why they are not, and that it describe the facts that the museum could have and that it believes that they change the attribution and Why with particularity. We have offered to put the museum in contact with academics and scientists who contributed to the report to discuss their findings, and we have offered to bring the painting to Amsterdam to study it more thoroughly in person, ”said LMI Group.
In its 458 -page report, the company details that all the materials used were from the nineteenth century and an organic element coincided with an egg clear finish that Van Gogh used to use to protect the canvases that it rolled, as confirmed This portrait. The letters of ‘Elimar’ with other autograph works by Van Gogh were compared, finding significant similarities.
Among the arguments that LMI Group International wields is a DNA analysis of a hair embedded in the painting that belonged to a man who could be redhead.
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